SECTION THREE OF THE MENTAL HEALTH ACT So do you feel any remorse? About having her sectioned? No. It's for her own good. Is that it? No. It's for my own good too. I'd rather have complete strangers look after her than for me to deal with it. Even the phone calls are taxing. Deal with it? It - the situation, and it - her. We stopped being mother and son a long time ago. When was the last time you dealt with 'it'? About six months ago. Carrying her up and down the stairs because she couldn't walk anymore. I thought this was a mental health problem? It is. The fact that she's too busy worrying about people with laser beams means that her physical health deteriorates. She won't take ANY medical advice and now she's at the point where she needs to be hospitalised to treat both the mental problems and the neglect issue. Neglect? Self neglect. The rest of the family do their best to pick up the slack. And what do you do? Live as far away as I can and do my best to ignore what is going on up there. Do you worry? Hell, yes. Even now there are probably people in the house I grew up in. Fucking with my stuff. Stuff? Comics mostly. I have a stack of 2000ADs I am kind of worried about. I should have brought them back with me by now. Your mother is probably strapped to a bed right now and you're worried about comics? Fuck that. I was raised by Judge Dredd. Mike is blogging to: The Twin Six